Well when I got a pc I needed it for college in 1996, plain simple.
I got things like Turbo Pascal, a program for designing boards and so on.
First ran Windows 95 with Microsoft Office and later I got my hands on Adobe Photoshop.
At that time games like Command & Conquer where so much played that it was impossible for the Amiga to keep up.
I than left the Amiga 500 in the garage where it was cool and dry and just late 2009 I fired it up again and then came the rage to buy A1200's and everything I can get my hands on.